British Porn-Censoring MP Has Website Defaced With Porn

twoheadedboy writes "Claire Perry MP, who has been the main driver of the UK government's plans for default blocking of pornography, has had her website plastered in porn by hackers. But the story only just begins there. Notable blogger Guido Fawkes, otherwise known as Paul Staines, posted on the matter, only to later be accused of sponsoring the hacking himself. During some back and forth over Twitter, it appeared Perry was 'confused,' as she said Fawkes had posted a link to the defaced page, when he had only shown a screenshot of the site. Given the backlash against the government's plans to censor porn and its technical fallacies, the event could be particularly embarrassing for Perry. She is not commenting on the matter, whilst Staines has threatened to sue unless Perry offers a retraction of her claim he had anything to do with the hack." The tweet: 'Apologies to anyone affected by the hacking of my website sponsored by @GuidoFawkes – proves so clearly what we are dealing with.' Someone needs a lesson about hypertext.

Oh Guido.

[shadowknot]

It is clear that Guido Fawkes sponsored the construction of a new, illicit series of tubes to connect the hackers to Claire's tubes. Remember, it's not a big truck we're dealing with here.

Re:Oh Guido.

[intermodal]

The crews constructing this series of tubes have been hailed for their efficiency, completing their task slightly more than three months before their scheduled November Fifth completion.

Re:What problem is this solving?

[NonUniqueNickname]

What exactly is the problem this legislation is trying to solve?

Claire Perry is having a problem getting votes in her upcoming reelection.

And she thinks having her website plastered in porn will help with the votes? That's crazy. So crazy it just might work.

Re:Technical illiteracy among politicians

[Zontar The Mindless]

I think the video and magazine shops are behind it, hoping to boost sales--to people who can no longer find their (free) porn online.

Re:What problem is this solving?

[jc42]

google for "Rainbow Parties" as an example.

Urban legend, and almost entirely a moral panic spread by various media sources. At least, that is what I found by googling that!

Yeah, that's what they want you to believe. In reality, all of your friends (male and female) are regularly attending such parties, and having a great time. But they (and the rest of us here on /.) don't want people like you to have that kind of fun, so we've put all those comments in the Usual Places online to convince you that they're myths.

But wait, there's video

[Minwee]

For those of us unaware of it, channel 4 has produced a dramatization of the meeting in which Claire Perry was first introduced to The Internet [youtube.com].